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Synonyms for cram

Most common

pack ram squeeze compress drum buff up

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Squeeze

squeeze, ram, stuff, jam-pack informal, pack, pac US, compress, jam, wad, choke, press, crowd, condense

2. Bone up

swat, buff up, drum, bone, bone up slang, mug up slang

Other

glut, gorge, bull

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.

    to cram fruit into a basket; to cram a room with people

  2. v. 2

    To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

    The boy crammed himself with cake

Related words

Word family
cram-packed
Phrases
cram school

Forms

Past participle
crammed
e.g. crammed → squeezed, rammed, stuffed, jam-packed…

Example sentences

  • pack Tom usually carries a bottle of water in his pack.
  • ram The RAM in a computer is its random access memory.
  • squeeze Everyone squeeze together so I can take a picture.
  • compress I stomped on the pile of leaves to compress it.
  • drum He's playing a cha cha cha rhythm on the drum kit.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
cramrising
packrising
ramfalling
squeezerising
compressrising
drumfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
ram1, jam1, pac1, wad1
4 letters
pack1, bone1, bull1, drum1, swat1, glut1
5 letters
press1, stuff1, crowd1, choke1, gorge1
7 letters
squeeze1
8 letters
compress2, condense2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (compress2 = 2 syllables).

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bourrer
Italiano
riempire
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